Einat Couzin-Fuchs

Group leader, Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour

My research brings together neuroethology, sensorimotor integration, and insect behaviour to investigate how neural circuits generate adaptive behaviour in changing social environments. My training began at Tel Aviv University, where I studied Computer Science (BSc), Zoology (MSc), and Neuroscience (PhD). I then moved to Princeton University for a postdoctoral fellowship in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where I studied adaptive motor control in insects. This interdisciplinary training continues to shape my research.

Together with a talented group of early-career researchers, we combine behavioural experiments, virtual reality, electrophysiology, imaging, and quantitative analysis to study how insects integrate sensory and social information to guide action.

I am particularly interested in how the brain integrates noisy, probabilistic, and multimodal information to generate appropriate decisions, especially in social contexts where individuals both influence and are influenced by others. My group focuses primarily on locusts and cockroaches as model systems for understanding the neural mechanisms that allow animals to adapt flexibly to changing social conditions.